Fantastic comment on Metafilter, on masking, that it is a constant burden of translation to be understood by a neurotypical audience.
Lazyweb, if I want: - to run Linux - on a decentish ARM processor - that will drive 2+ 4k displays, - in a quiet-ish, mini-ish form factor ... are there options in the world that are purchaseable and not "give up on the Linux part and get a Mac Mini"?
A kid home sick today, and I find myself once again infuriated by the amount of time, money and effort we've put into the mandatory indoor air quality improvements in our schools and public institutions to mitigate this ongoing pandemic, because as far as I can tell that amount is zero. We could solve this problem.
We should all be deeply suspicious of people asking for both "efficiencies" and "resiliency"; those conversations are really about safety margins and blame. View quoted note β†’
Just for a second I was thinking β€œmakes sense, obviously any receiver can also be a transmitter” before the galaxy brain warmed up enough to ask why the remote control has wheels.
"Controversy erupts at the plagiarism machine conference when it turned out people were using the plagiarism machine to do plagiarism." This is genuine comedy. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03506-6
We know from the Panama Papers (and the Paradise Papers, and the Pandora papers, and and and) that basically all the hard-right political parties and their proxies in North America and Europe are being quietly shadow-funded by Russia and a collection of ideologically-aligned oligarchs, so it would be great if elected politicians acted as though they understood that, and that condemning antifascist protest is sending a clear signal they've been bought by the wrong side.
I feel like the greenroom136 people might know their audience. Like, their whole audience. image
If you’re the sort of person who likes to experiment with the ergonomics of their workplace, you should know about threaded inserts and cheese plates. By fitting the standard 1/4”x20 β€œtripod screw” threading, you can use them with inexpensive articulating arms (see smallrig.com) to make experimenting with new setups very easy.
Imagine letting your whole worldview, how you learn about anything, get filtered through a silent corporate-brand-sanitation machine. Banning books seems adorably quaint by comparison. Your brain would end up as polished and smooth as the inside of a urinal. View quoted note β†’